A Failed Attempt

The worn, wooden door slams Now she stands alone Shivering in the cold, shuddering in the rain Slowly, she turns and sits down on the stoop Of his battered apartment building Mascara tears slide, never-ending down her face Mixed with rain Trembling, she pulls her thin jacket tighter Around her shoulders A failed attempt at shielding herself from the night She wraps her pale, gangly arms around herself The rain, now soaked through her clothes Beading, on her cool skin Her head falls, heavily, to her hands And the cold grips her bones in its gnarly hands With no where to go She pulls her knees to her chest Her eyelids flutter And another lonely night begins

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